Parenting class offered at Wellspring Counseling

WATERBURY — Wellspring Counseling Services is offering a nine-week group for parents and caregivers who struggle with the difficult behaviors of the children in their care. The series begins Oct. 23 and will be held Tuesday evenings from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall at Walnut Hill Community Church, 274 Bunker Hill Avenue, Waterbury.

Therapists Kathy Dowling, LMFT and Jennifer Rocher, will lead this group in a family-centered approach to parenting children with challenging behaviors. Facilitated discussion and workbooks, along with group support, will guide participants in learning to respond rather than react to their children.

Participation is limited to residents of: Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Cheshire, Goshen, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Milford, Oxford, Prospect, Roxbury, Southbury, Thomaston, Warren Washington, Waterbury, Watertown, Wolcott and Woodbury. Special thanks to the Healthy Communities Fund of the Connecticut Community Foundation for supporting this program for the second consecutive year.

The cost of the nineweek series is $80 per family – sliding fee scale is available. Materials will be provided. Space is limited! To register or learn more, please call 203.266.8003.

Established in 1923, Connecticut Community Foundation is a philanthropic foundation created by and for the people of Greater Waterbury and the Litchfield Hills. While serving this 21-town region, the Foundation provides leadership in addressing the community's critical issues, strengthens local nonprofit organizations through grants and technical assistance programs, and works with individuals, families and corporations to administer charitable and scholarship funds. Learn more at www.conncf.org.

Since its beginning in 1977, Wellspring has progressively expanded its services to provide residential treatment services in a private school environment for children and adolescent girls on the main campus, residential treatment for adult woman on their own private campus; extensive outpatient services at two locations and therapeutic special education services for residential and day students on the main campus at their NEASC accredited Arch Bridge School.

Wellspring is a multiservice mental health agency and educational center, licensed by the State of Connecticut and accredited by The Joint Commission. Wellspring’s excellent reputation for quality care, comprehensive mental health treatment and special education services has accompanied its growth. Wellspring is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at www.wellspring.org.